Yaoundé, Cameroon · September 15–26, 2025
Psalms Workshop
The sculptors who came to the Yaoundé workshop were not Bible translators. They were artists — people who worked with their hands, who understood form and material and what it takes to make something that means something.
What they had never considered was making something from the Bible.
Over the course of the two-week workshop — working alongside translation teams from the Bakoko and Mengaka communities — that changed. They listened as translators worked through Psalm 100’s call to worship, Psalm 133’s vision of unity, and Psalm 2’s declaration of divine kingship. They absorbed the imagery: the harp, the lamb, the shepherd, the dove. And they began to work.
What they created — sculptures grounded in biblical imagery, rooted in their own artistic tradition — were things they had not known were possible before they arrived. The report notes simply: ‘Before the workshop, the sculptors had never thought it was possible to create art from the Bible. Now they know that it is.’
That sentence describes something scripture engagement can do that doctrine alone rarely manages: it opens a door someone did not know was there.
